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Aug 14, 2012 12:25 pm
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Tracy Griswold as Duncan surrounded by his happy kilted warriors.
Actors often superstitiously call the Tragedy of Macbeth “the Scottish play” to ward off the accursed bad luck of the o’er-leaping protagonist of Shakespeare’s great 1611 drama.
The talented thespians in the upcoming Elm Shakespeare Company‘s production shouldn’t have much to worry about: They’ve returned the play to its haunting and mythical Scottish roots, kilts and all.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Jun 26, 2012 8:12 am
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Neighbor Mike Clinton (pictured) came opposed, left in favor.
Along with the rustle of the wind in the trees and the cries of birds wheeling in the sky, visitors to the summit of East Rock Park may soon hear the thundering of hooves.
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Allan Appel
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Jun 18, 2012 11:00 am
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Bob O’Brien’s reproduction of an 1870 commemoration photo at Gettysburg, with George Warner center.
On June 17,1887, a man who had lost both arms to friendly fire at Gettysburg stood before tens of thousands and pulled a cord attached to long draperies that dropped away to unveil the newly finished Soldiers and Sailors Monument atop East Rock. The Civil War double amputee had to use his teeth.
On Sunday, 125 years later to the day, Mark Marganski, Private George W. Warner’s great-great-grandson, placed a wreath on the monument before a far smaller crowd concerned that the sacrifices of American history are being forgotten.
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Melissa Bailey
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Jun 18, 2012 8:16 am
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Hillhouse linebacker Terrell Fairweather looks forward to seeing his team play under the lights on a new turf field, after a surprise last-minute $11.6 million snuck through the state legislature to redo Bowen Field.
Young Westvillian Eva Heitmann helped plant blue iris.
She raised her eyes from her labors when someone called out, “It looks like planting rice in Southeast Asia!” But Stephanie FitzGerald knew very well where she was: Staking holes in the mud to insert Joe-Pye weed and other shallow water plants in the newly marshy meadow of the restored Edgewood Park Duck Pond.
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Thomas MacMillan
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May 14, 2012 2:05 pm
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For the first time in recent memory, New Haveners driving into Lighthouse Park this summer may have to pay for the privilege. If Jeanette Morrison gets her way, the entrance fee will be less than it otherwise might have.
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May 8, 2012 12:16 pm
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After a decade, good potable water has started flowing again from the noble public fountain at the southeast corner of the New Haven Green. But so far more birds appear to know about it than do people, and the people who notice think the H2O isn’t safe.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Apr 18, 2012 4:08 pm
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With Occupy New Haven gone, the city is left with a “concrete” dust bowl and a tree that will likely have to come down. The grass could return by summer.
Most of the blossoms were gone, but that didn’t stop thousands of people from flocking to Wooster Square Sunday for the neighborhood’s annual festival.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Apr 11, 2012 7:42 am
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The city will have to shell out thousands of dollars to fix Occupy New Haven’s damage to the Green, if and when it succeeds in removing the protest camp, according to city Chief Administrative Officer Rob Smuts.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Apr 3, 2012 11:02 am
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Public works staffers hauled off Occupy New Haven’s wooden pallet barricades and fire marshals ordered plywood signs removed, as Occupy infighting smear campaigns erupted on Facebook and Twitter and three key organizers decamped to an undisclosed location.
On the other hand, Quinnipiac Tribe Grand Sachem Iron Thunderhorse offered to guide occupiers on the path to becoming “true human beings” — from prison.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Mar 27, 2012 11:00 am
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Exhibit A in the city’s new brief: Occupiers are harming trees.
After a federal judge told the city to draw up specific rules covering protest encampments on the Green, the city replied: We’ve got rules. We just haven’t been enforcing them.
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Mar 9, 2012 4:51 pm
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Don Montano and Katie Carbo.
As the threat of removal looms at Occupy New Haven, a pacifist shaved his head for “battle” while other occupiers circled the wagons ahead of an expected invasion.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Mar 7, 2012 2:21 pm
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Occupier Glen Steinburg, who’s taken on a landlord in the eviction process before, said he’s ready for another legal battle if the city wants Occupy New Haven off the Green.
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Mar 2, 2012 12:26 am
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Ensign Watkins was the first British man to storm New Haven’s beach during the Revolutionary War; a farmer living in the area shot him dead on the spot. When the British didn’t return for his body, Watkins began haunting the woods around the beach. He finally inhabited the New Haven Harbor lighthouse when it was built in 1840 — where his ghostly soul remains.
While their counterparts continued to battle authorities in other cities, Occupy New Haven protesters met with officials to discuss how to continue working together when the weather gets warm — and other groups stake claim to the Green.
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Melissa Bailey
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Jan 16, 2012 12:15 pm
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A Miami Sun trike, similar to the ones that were stolen.
After a police dispatcher ignored an early clue in a case of missing adult tricycles, a parks department employee took matters into his own hands — and tracked down $1,000 worth of stolen city goods.
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Allan Appel
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Dec 29, 2011 12:01 pm
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Skating champ Lucinda Ruh and her students at Ralph Walker.
A cozy wood fire burned in the hearth. Dozens of people laced up their skates in a chalet-like lobby with charming paintings on the walls. Meanwhile, a champion spinning star signed books and skated.
East Shore Gardens park with its new additions, plaque and clock tower.
“The first person to litter on this garden will be struck dead by lightning, and you know who will send the bolt.”
That warning from beyond the grave was delivered by Dick Pastore, youngest son of Margaret Pastore, the first female city parks commissioner, who died in 2008 at age 99.
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Allan Appel
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Oct 11, 2011 7:40 am
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Conservator Miller with Patriotism.
The next hurricane might have knocked Patriotism right off her pedestal. The same goes for Victory, Prosperity, and History. A rescue crew has swooped to make sure that won’t happen.
